Kaleidoscope Honolulu

An Outreach of First Christian Church DOC of Honolulu

• Forming small communities out of the needs and interests of our neighbors

• Addressing needs and social injustices with our neighbors

• Partnering/collaborating together to help one another thrive

  Creating small, urban communities because:

  Everyone's light matters~

  We shine brighter together~

  Shaping patterns of human light to impact positive change in our neighborhood and city

Kaleidoscope Learning Center

FREE November

Cooking Camp 2026

Everything Supplied

Wednesdays

10:30-11:30

November 4, 11, 18

Grades K-12th Families Welcome with Pre-K

Healthy Choices

Thanksgiving Cooking

Keiki Approved Tasty & Easy

Keiki Open Art Studio FREE

Wednesdays Dec. 2, 9, 16

Grades K-8th...10:30-11:30

Everything Supplied for keiki to move freely in making and creating different art. This is not a specific art lesson, but a time for keiki to make and create either looking at art samples or using their imagination with the art supplies. Younger siblings can create art and play in the pre-school area.

Young Gardener to Table Initiative

2027 Classes Wednesdays TBA

"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." -Elizabeth Murray

Young Gardener to Table Initiative; Spring 2027

A a third part of our wholistic approach to cultivating young gardeners in which the seed/seedling goes from the earth, to the harvest, to the kitchen to be cooked, and the table to become the meal celebrated together.

Students will be provided with their own take home gardening planters, along with planting, nurturing, and harvesting seeds/seedlings in our Kaleidoscope Community Garden. Our young gardeners will plant and tend vegetables and herbs that they will harvest and use in the recipes that we prepare/cook together to create a meal-and then eat together.

Our focus each Wednesday will be a blend of gardening and cooking. Our young gardeners will learn about planting, caring for a garden, nutrition, herbs and flavors, proper cutting of vegetables and kitchen safety, measurement in the kitchen, how to take a recipe and make substitutions to make it healthier, hands-on cooking and preparing a meal or snack, working together, and so much more!

This initiative is FREE to students, and includes all resources needed for the gardening and cooking experiences.

The Kaleidoscope Learning Center is thankful to several grant partners in providing for this initiative that cultivates a new generation of gardeners who care for the earth, discover the joy of planting and harvesting, fall in love with the art of cooking their harvest or the harvest of other local farmers, and develop a lifestyle perspective of gardening to the table with nutrition as a priority.

A limited amount of student spaces will be available, so be sure to register as soon as you are notified of, or see the promotion with spring 2027 dates.

Communities We Are Focusing On Now

OUR Community Garden

Growing a Gardening Community

OUR FREE Community Garden is part of our grassroots Kaleidoscope Honolulu in our urban neighborhood. We anticipate so much "harvest" from it-including more food security and relationship building with our seniors, families, and youth living in high-rise homes around us, but it's much more than that!

Kaleidoscope Honolulu is an outreach of First Christian Church of Honolulu (DOC), and the community garden is located on the campus at: 1516 Kewalo St Honolulu, HI 96822

Raised gardening beds, with trellis, are 42 X 24 and about waist high. Bed/Dirt/Water are provided. Our raised beds are the "seeds" of a Gardening Community for our neighborhood...where gardeners can:

• Grow vegetables and herbs

• Gather to talk story-meet friends old and new

• Learn about gardening as other gardeners/master gardeners share what they've learned

• Nurture food health and wellness through special events,
  trade plants and seeds, and more!

Think of it as the beginning of a big gardening family! We have special gardening speakers/events on Wednesdays from 10:30-12:30, and we will have some special gardening events/speakers on Saturdays TBA.

153 Cafe

Famous Hibiscus Tea & Spice Cake

An outdoor gathering space for our gardening community and neighbors in our backyard green space.

Featuring our famous Hibiscus Tea and Spice Cake! Delicious to sip and talk story with friends.

Wednesdays 10:30-12:30. Proceeds to Kaleidoscope Movement

Located @FCC of Honolulu 1516 Kewalo St Honolulu, HI 96822

Bringing Lights Together

153 Marketplace Shopping... where your unique, artisan crafted gift is waiting! All proceeds go into the Kaleidoscope Learning Center Grant Fund.

Open Art Studio@153 Cafe

Wednesdays 10:30-12:30

FREE Everything Supplied! Forget your cares & worries for healing art time and new friends.

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Pablo Picasso

Our Partners Grant Support 

National Benevolent Association

Christian Church Disciples of Christ

We are thankful for our Grant Partner, National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church Disciples of Christ. whose generous grant has made it possible to begin the grass roots movement Kaleidoscope Honolulu

Wondering why it's called 153 Cafe & Marketplace? It arose in our Small Worship Community from the scripture text: John 21

Just imagine the impact if we create 153 small communities- of all different kinds- that might bring all our unique lights together, creating new patterns of light that impact our urban neighborhood, and the lives of all ages and cultures, for the better!

Kaleidoscope Honolulu

Bringing Lights Together

Email: kaleidoscopelearningcenter@yahoo.com

First Christian Church (DOC) of Honolulu 1516 Kewalo St Honolulu, HI 96822